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"Edward Evans’ paintings are so skillfully created that they make the viewer wonder what is real and what is illusion. Enter the gallery and move towards an Edward Evans painting at the opposite end of the room. Your brain immediately tells you that you’re looking at a photograph of a wrinkled manuscript or a piece of parchment. As you move closer you begin to think what you are looking at is definitely three-dimensional. Finally, as you square yourself in front of this enigmatic piece of art you realize the piece is flat and is a painting on linen. It is a painting that has been created using acrylics and an airbrush, a tool that few fine artists use. This is the compelling, illusionary and sometimes maddening, world of Edward Evans."
Howard Spencer, Curator. Washington Pavilion of Arts and Sciences, Sioux Falls, SD
I have been writing on paintings for years. Chinese writing is especially interesting because of the architectural-like placement of the lines and the evolution from pictures to symbols to simple Chinese. I don’t care whether people can read what I have written; it is the spirit of the writing that matters. The illusion underneath matters more than the reality of the material. Because I’m making something to look at, these legible designs must be part of an esthetic entity, but the characters also symbolically express, in an artist’s way, a desire to communicate and a hope that all peoples can remain individual while working in a world community. Edward Evans
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